Master Linux Disk Partitioning in Linux with the Fdisk Command

Disk partitioning is the process of dividing a disk into multiple logical storage.

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Linux provides several tools for partitioning disks, and one of the most commonly used tools is the fdisk command.

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The fdisk command is a command-line utility that is used to create, modify, and delete disk partitions.

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Run the command "sudo fdisk -l" to list the available disks on your system

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After you have created your partitions, you can format them with a filesystem using the mkfs command

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It can be used on most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Note that the fdisk command requires root privileges, so you will need to use the "sudo" command

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Partitioning a disk will erase all existing data on the disk

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